False messiah refers to anyone who has falsely claimed to be the messiah.
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Armilus is an anti-Messiah figure in late-period Jewish eschatology, comparable to the Christian Antichrist and Muslim Dajjal, who will conquer Jerusalem and persecute the Jews until his final defeat at the hands of God or the true Messiah. His inevitable destruction symbolizes the ultimate victory of good over evil in the Messianic Age or World to Come.
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Armilus is "a king who will arise at the end of time against the Messiah, and will be conquered by him after having brought much distress upon Israel", similar to Gog. He is spoken of in both Midrash Vayosha and Sefer Zerubbabel, in which he defeats the Messiah ben Joseph.
The origin of this figure, said to be the offspring of Satan and a virgin, or Satan and a statue (or "stone"), is as much involved in doubt as the different phases of his development, and his relation to the Christian legend and doctrine.
Most mainstream Christians believe Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah, and regard any other past or future claimant as false. The Book of Revelation describes an 'Antichrist' who will claim to be Jesus and will be in league with the devil.
al-Masih ad-Dajjal, Arabic for "the false messiah", is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology, directly comparable to the figures of the Antichrist and Armilus in Christian and Jewish eschatology, respectively. [1] He is to appear, pretending to be Masih (i.e. the Messiah), at a time in the future before Yawm al-Qiyamah (Judgment Day).